The Blogs N' Roses Grammy Recap Show
A few emails came into our accounts and were bitching about the Grammy Awards last night. We understand your frustration about the Grammys, hell just search that term on our site and you will find our thoughts on the marketing award show. But let's set the record straight on a few things.
While she normally has a co-writer, Lady Gaga writes her own music. To say "Congrats goes out to gaga's songwriters for propping her career up" is just misinformed sycophant babble. Her performance last night was weak, boring and over hyped. Her new song sounds similar to Madonna, but that is who she is trying to emulate. Hate Gaga because you don't like her music, or you think she is boring, but to hate her because you think she doesn't write her songs or because she is over hyped is wrong. The egg entrance was brilliant because she didn't have to answer any of the stupid inane questions like "Who are you wearing," "who are most excited to see," or "what do you think people will be talking about tomorrow."
Secondly, Bob Dylan's voice is totally shot. He never really had a great voice, but HO LEE SH EEET was his voice bad. It sounded like he needed a Hall's lozenge.
Thirdly, the Arcade Fire - some don't know who they are. In fact, here is some outrage courtesy of Tumblr. The hype is generated by hipsters, but don't worry their win last night assured the hipsters are quickly jumping ship because Arcade Fire just hit mainstream. The original draw to this band was simple: they have great chord progression that is haunting and yet still catchy and their lyrics....every lyric is meaningful. There is no "Ra Ah Ah La La Gaga Ah La La" or god forbid Beyonce lyrics where the same words are rhymed with the EXACT SAME WORDS!
You should at least have been familiar with Arcade Fire when U2 toured in 2005/2006. Every interview they were doing, they were talking about Arcade Fire because Arcade Fire's song Wake Up opened the every show. There wasn't an interview where Bono didn't answer the question "Who plays that song you open the show with?" They have headlined Lollapalooza, Coachella, a few other festivals I am blanking on.
Just because you have never heard of them doesn't make their album The Suburbs any less interesting. It was clearly better than every other album it was up against, but that doesn't usually mean it wins at the Grammys. I was just as shocked as everyone else when that was read, but not because I had no idea who they were, but because they deserved it and those who deserve it rarely win.
I can't really say it better than the band themselves:
While she normally has a co-writer, Lady Gaga writes her own music. To say "Congrats goes out to gaga's songwriters for propping her career up" is just misinformed sycophant babble. Her performance last night was weak, boring and over hyped. Her new song sounds similar to Madonna, but that is who she is trying to emulate. Hate Gaga because you don't like her music, or you think she is boring, but to hate her because you think she doesn't write her songs or because she is over hyped is wrong. The egg entrance was brilliant because she didn't have to answer any of the stupid inane questions like "Who are you wearing," "who are most excited to see," or "what do you think people will be talking about tomorrow."
Secondly, Bob Dylan's voice is totally shot. He never really had a great voice, but HO LEE SH EEET was his voice bad. It sounded like he needed a Hall's lozenge.
Thirdly, the Arcade Fire - some don't know who they are. In fact, here is some outrage courtesy of Tumblr. The hype is generated by hipsters, but don't worry their win last night assured the hipsters are quickly jumping ship because Arcade Fire just hit mainstream. The original draw to this band was simple: they have great chord progression that is haunting and yet still catchy and their lyrics....every lyric is meaningful. There is no "Ra Ah Ah La La Gaga Ah La La" or god forbid Beyonce lyrics where the same words are rhymed with the EXACT SAME WORDS!
You should at least have been familiar with Arcade Fire when U2 toured in 2005/2006. Every interview they were doing, they were talking about Arcade Fire because Arcade Fire's song Wake Up opened the every show. There wasn't an interview where Bono didn't answer the question "Who plays that song you open the show with?" They have headlined Lollapalooza, Coachella, a few other festivals I am blanking on.
Just because you have never heard of them doesn't make their album The Suburbs any less interesting. It was clearly better than every other album it was up against, but that doesn't usually mean it wins at the Grammys. I was just as shocked as everyone else when that was read, but not because I had no idea who they were, but because they deserved it and those who deserve it rarely win.
I can't really say it better than the band themselves:
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